[blindkid] Test Prep

[melissa R green]

I haven't had the experience where I had to take my sATs with other blind 
students who used braille.
I was the same as Arielle.
Have a blessed day.
Many Blessings, Warmly,
Melissa and Pj
I never change, I simply become more myself.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arielle Silverman" <arielle71 at gmail.com>
To: "Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
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Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Test Prep


Hi Eileen,
That's very odd that Braille students throughout the country must take
the test on a Wednesday. I took the test in 2002, and I took it on the
same Saturday as the other students. The only difference was that I
took the test in the VI classroom with my TVI as proctor and of course
used a Braille test. I have some trouble believing that everyone who
uses Braille would have to test at the same time and at a different
time as the other students. Have others experienced this?
Also, I'm just curious, what problems did Patrick have with the AP
test? Are AP scores still being released late for blind students? I
know back in 2006 the NFB was taking this issue on.
Arielle

On 10/7/12, EMMOL at aol.com <EMMOL at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Dr. V,
> After registering for the tests and creating an account, my son,  Patrick,
> tried the online sample questions provided by ETS. Not always easy  to do
> with JAWS, but that was a few years back. Then ETS would send prep
> materials
> in Braille to my son's guidance counselor,  who happened to be  the 
> testing
>
> coordinator in our high school. I believe they were copies of old  tests.
> They also sent a Braille booklet of Nemeth symbols that would be used in
> the
> math section of the SAT.
>
> The PSAT in Braille was only offered on the Wednesday before the PSAT
> Saturday date. A challenge to find a quiet testing environment on a normal
> high
> school day with a couple of thousand teenagers moving around the  building
> following their usual schedules, not quite like the totally quiet 
> building
>
> the other kids have on a Saturday morning. Also, when testing on a
> Wednesday, one misses the regularly scheduled classes and is of course
> responsible
> for presented information. Looked into this and it is just the way  it is
> done, throughout the country, I was told. I decided this was one of those
> "Pick and choose your battles" situations.
> Guessing you may have a couple of years before dealing with the AP  final
> exam testing. That was another whole situation and a battle I chose to
> fight.
> Eileen Molloy
>
> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:38:43 -0700
> From: DrV  <icdx at earthlink.net>
> To: "Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind  children)"
> <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blindkid]  Preparing for the PSAT & Pre-ACT - Seeking
> Insights
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>
> Hi All,
> My 10th grader Vejas  (braille-reader; no vision) will be taking the both
> the
> PSAT & Pre-ACT in  the next 3 weeks ? any suggestions on taking the actual
> test? Any suggestions  on how to best study for these? All the kids got a
> PSAT descriptive booklet ?  we found a PDF of it on the web. The actual
> Pretest booklet however seems to  only be available in print. Suggestions
> anyone? Words of experience &  wisdom?
>
> He did look on Bookshare but he says there were problems with the  books
>
> Book 1: Cracking the SAT (2013 Edition).
> Problems: Most, if not  all, of the reading comprehension passages are
> omitted & in some of the  multiple choice questions, the choice answers 
> are
> cut off.
>
> Book 2:  Cracking the PSAT/Nmsqt (2013 Edition).
> Problems: The reading comprehension  passages seem to have been omitted.
>
> Thanks in advance for your time &  input.
> EricV
>
>
>
>
>
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